Doomsday Machinefloats aimlessly by......

[J. L. Seagull]

Maybe it was seeing if we might be tasty? And then went to get its friends for a dinner party?

 

[Qonundrum]

(The cow was already Intrepid enough to have eaten the Enterprise...)

 

[Samuel]

A single ship cannot combat it though! And Vulcan's never bluff while trying to remove a superior officer from the command seat!
JB

Decker was lucky. If Kirk had suddenly appeared on the bridge he probably would've taken out a phaser and simply stunned Decker right then and there. Called McCoy and said that "the Commodore seems to have lost consciousness".

 

[johnnybear]

Kirk was still the Captain! Even against a superior officer's failed judgement in this scenario!
JB